Actually, Basil Rathbone would have made a great Romulan. Check out his haircut in TOWER OF LONDON.
Non-Trek Genre (or non-genre) Actors or Actresses you'd like to see *guest star*
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Actually, Basil Rathbone would have made a great Romulan. Check out his haircut in TOWER OF LONDON.
True enough. I can't wait-- and equally dread-- the day when CGI can bring back classic actors in new movies.
More like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca II, but, yeah, that's the beginning of the process.Like Laurence Olivier in SKY CAPTAIN? Or Marlon Brando in SUPERMAN RETURNS?
I didn't even know that there was a Conan series. I'm also trying to think of a video, or maybe a TV commercial, where (maybe) Elton John co-stars with a deceased singer. My Google searches turn up nothing, because I don't remember enough about it.
But I'm talking about the point where 3D characters evolve past Happy Valley Syndrome, or whatever it's called, and become completely indistinguishable from the real thing, which I'm sure is not far off. We'll be able to have classic stars like Humphrey Bogart or Myrna Loy or whoever starring in new movies or TV shows. On the one hand, I think that would be absolutely fantastic, but on the other hand I dread what modern moviemakers would do to these poor dead idols.
I'm also trying to think of a video, or maybe a TV commercial, where (maybe) Elton John co-stars with a deceased singer. My Google searches turn up nothing, because I don't remember enough about it.But I'm talking about the point where 3D characters evolve past Happy Valley Syndrome, or whatever it's called, and become completely indistinguishable from the real thing, which I'm sure is not far off. We'll be able to have classic stars like Humphrey Bogart or Myrna Loy or whoever starring in new movies or TV shows. On the one hand, I think that would be absolutely fantastic, but on the other hand I dread what modern moviemakers would do to these poor dead idols.
Uncanny Valley
If we're resurrecting actors, how about Sessue Hayakawa, Anna May Wong, or Paul Robeson, and give them roles with more dignity than Hollywood would allow them?
But really, I want new actors to get work.
If we're resurrecting actors, how about Sessue Hayakawa, Anna May Wong, or Paul Robeson, and give them roles with more dignity than Hollywood would allow them?
But really, I want new actors to get work.
Right, that's it.
Coincidentally, Anna May Wong stars in my own Space Opera. I'm not familiar with the other two off the top of my head, but if you know Willie Best, he stars in an homage to 30s cinema that I wrote. I cast most of my characters as either people I know or my favorite actors, or other famous people.
Well, of course that's true. But then we also have plenty of animated movies as it is. A photorealistic CGI sequel to Casablanca would be in effect no different from Shrek or Justice League: New Frontier. And voice actors would be needed to do the actual acting (and probably motion-capture actors, too). But, yeah, I'm of two minds about the whole concept. Half of me wants to leave well enough alone and half of me wants to see a fourth season of Star Trek that looks exactly like the first three.
I didn't even know that there was a Conan series.
Trust me. You didn't miss anything.
This was around the time that the success of HERCULES and XENA sparked a spate of syndicated fantasy-adventure shows: SINBAD, BEASTMASTER, SHEENA, etc. But the CONAN show was not nearly as good as any of those.
And, yes, a CGI Richard Burton played the great god Crom!
I vaguely remember those other shows, though I didn't watch them, but no memory at all of Conan. Poor Richard Burton.
Since this is just folks BSing on a web forum, I'll allow it. It's also fine to pick people from various points in their lives - a young Clint Eastwood as the constable of a human colony, for example.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate for them to be Remans?
Commercials seem to use the heck out of Marilyn and John Wayne, too - although like this Diet Coke ad, it mostly seems to be existing footage photomanipulated into other situations. Not actual computer simulation of them - not like Philip Seymour Hoffman for the last Hunger Games film, or Jack Lord on the new Hawaii Five-0 this year. Or young Jeff Bridges in "Tron: Legacy". (Which I thought was a great way to use the current state of the art - the slight fakeness of the way he looked was a feature of the movie, not a bug, so to speak, since Clu was, in fact, a glitchy computer program.
)To begin with, perhaps. But eventually - and it won't be too long - the technology to simulate both of those things will be there, too. There's already discussion about whether there are enough samples of Majel Barrett's voice to use for the ship's computer on Discovery - *including to have her saying NEW lines* - and that doesn't even seem all that far-fetched, considering things like Siri and Cortana.
I really want to see this now.
But yeah that series was pretty bad, from the 90s when vanilla syndicated adventure shows were everywhere.
I dunno... if we can get tupac on tour im sure someone can put boris into star trek
Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn, Danny John-Jules. I still live in hope of a Dwarf/Trek crossover.
More realistically though, what about some Star Wars people? Maybe not the likes of Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford (but wouldn't that be awesome if they could) but people like Peter Mayhew, or Ray Park, or Anthony Daniels. And return the favour by putting Patrick Stewart in Episode VIII.
More realistically though, what about some Star Wars people? Maybe not the likes of Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford (but wouldn't that be awesome if they could) but people like Peter Mayhew, or Ray Park, or Anthony Daniels. And return the favour by putting Patrick Stewart in Episode VIII.
Oh, please, no.Wouldn't it be more appropriate for them to be Remans?
Besides, neither of those guys needs prosthetic makeup-- they were living, breathing special effects in their own right.Yeah, that's what I was thinking of-- more of a Forrest Gump thing than a CGI resurrection.
I never heard of any of this. Jack Lord was in the new Five-0? Maybe we're closer to this than I even thought.Not actual computer simulation of them - not like Philip Seymour Hoffman for the last Hunger Games film, or Jack Lord on the new Hawaii Five-0 this year. Or young Jeff Bridges in "Tron: Legacy". (Which I thought was a great way to use the current state of the art - the slight fakeness of the way he looked was a feature of the movie, not a bug, so to speak, since Clu was, in fact, a glitchy computer program.
Yeah, that's a very good point.
Anyone from the cast of the web series Carmilla.
And Chloe Grace Moretz.
And Chloe Grace Moretz.
Cillian Murphy as a malicious alien.
Hugh Laurie as, well, anything.
Melanie Laurent as a Starfleet scientist of some kind.
Hugh Laurie as, well, anything.
Melanie Laurent as a Starfleet scientist of some kind.
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